Pigment: A Mountain Walk in Forty Colours

I'm currently developing a new body of work, Pigment: A Mountain Walk in Forty Colours, inspired by the landscapes, industrial histories and geological materials of Fleetwith Pike and Honister in the Lake District.

The project explores how colour can become a way of understanding landscape. Working with earths, slate dust and other naturally occurring materials gathered during repeated visits to the fells, I'm creating a series of forty pigments that reflect the changing geology, histories and textures of a single mountain walk. These pigments are then carefully processed by hand and used to develop drawings, prints and other forms of mark-making. The project also draws on archival research, local histories and conversations with people who know these landscapes well.

Pigment continues my long-standing interest in walking as a creative and research methodology, exploring how landscape, material and embodied experience can come together through artistic practice. The project is currently in development and will eventually lead to new artworks, publications, guided walks and exhibitions.

New publication: “Emplacing and Walking the Menopause” in ‘Reimagining Menopause’, July 2026

I'm delighted to share that my chapter, "Emplacing and Walking the Menopause", has been published in 'Reimagining Menopause', The Sociological Review Monograph Series (Volume 74, Issue 4), published by SAGE. Edited by Shani Orgad, Belinda Steffan and Odessa Hamilton, the collection brings together interdisciplinary perspectives that explore how menopause can be understood and reimagined through lived experience, culture, creativity and social change. 

My chapter reflects on the development of Walking the Menopause, a long-term creative practice that explores how walking, landscape and collective experience can open up different ways of understanding and living through menopause. Combining photographs, maps and reflective writing, it considers how emplacement—the practice of situating experience within particular landscapes—can generate new forms of knowledge, connection and wellbeing. 

It has been a privilege to contribute to this important collection alongside such thoughtful and inspiring contributors.

Hysterectomy: BedRock (now The Quarried Body) in Health Activism and Sexual Politics, March 2026

My chapter "Hysterectomy: BedRock – Emplacing and Making Visible Experiences of Surgery for Hysterectomy and Surgical Menopause Through Creative Practice" appears in 'Health Activism and Sexual Politics: Feminist Engagements with Health, Illness and the Body' (Routledge, 2026).

Drawing on lived experience, the chapter traces the journey from a radical hysterectomy and surgically induced menopause to the development of a body of creative work. It explores how photography, walking and site-specific practice became ways of making visible the physical, emotional and psychological realities of recovery.

The second part introduces The Quarried Body, a body of work that situates personal medical experience within a quarried landscape in northern England. Through the idea of emplacement, it examines the relationship between body, landscape and industrial extraction, inviting audiences to encounter hysterectomy and menopause as lived experiences rather than abstract medical events.

The book is edited by Lisa Lindén, Emily Jay Nicholls and Josefin Persdotter and is available open access via Taylor & Francis.